Body Lies

A dark, thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.

What if you realised the subject your student is studying is you?

When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big city and the scene of a violent assault she’s desperate to forget. But despite the distractions of a new life and single motherhood, her nerves continue to jangle. To make matters worse, a vicious debate about violence against women inflames the tensions and mounting rivalries in her creative writing group.

When a troubled student starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognises herself as a main character in his book - and he has written her a horrible fate.

Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late?

At once a breathless cat-and-mouse game and a layered exploration of violence against women in art, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times.

Un nou roman intunecat, palpitant, al autorului cel mai bine vandut al lui Longbourn: o opera de suspans nituitoare care se lupta cu modul de a trai ca femeie in lume - sau in paginile unei carti - atunci cand miza este periculos de mare. subiectul pe care il studiaza studentul tau esti tu? Cand un tanar scriitor accepta un loc de munca la o universitate din mediul rural indepartat, trebuie sa fie un nou inceput, departe de marele oras si de scena unui asalt violent pe care dispereaza sa o uite.